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IBM Delivers New Software And Cloud Services To Accelerate Social Business

ARMONK, N.Y.,
Jan. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
IBM (NYSE:
IBM) today announced new software and cloud-based services to help business leaders, such as chief marketing officers and chief human resource officers, advance their organization's transformation with the adoption of social business technology. The new offerings will help business leaders integrate IBM's
industry-leading social networking and analytics technologies into their business processes to empower the 21st Century workforce and transform client experiences.

The new social software offerings will help companies gain deeper insights into big data generated through the use of social networks.
Organizations applying analytics to their data for competitive advantage are more likely to substantially outperform their industry peers*.

Today, leading organizations, including 61 percent of the Fortune 100, are licensed to use IBM's social business technologies to transform their front office business operations. This includes connecting employees globally to empower faster decision making and analyzing big data from sources such as Twitter, Facebook, blogs and public forums, to react swiftly to customer trends and outpace competitors.

Just as social networking has flourished in the consumer realm, Forrester has identified social business as an emerging business category, with the social technology industry growing to
$6.4 billion by 2016**.

Increasingly, front-office leaders, such as chief human resource officers, are looking to form a smarter workforce to unlock human potential and unleash innovation.
According to a recent
IBM CEO study, 70 percent of companies surveyed cited human capital as the single biggest contributor to sustained economic value.

At the same time, social media and predictive analytics have emerged as indispensable tools for CMOs, who are using technology to make the customer experience more intelligent, intuitive and individualized. According to the
IBM CMO study, 82 percent of CMOs say they plan to increase their use of social media over the next three-to-five years to communicate with their clients.

IBM's new software and cloud-based services include:

A new Web-based social networking environment that provides HR leaders with a better way to recruit and onboard new employees, while giving employees access to digital media and data in real-time, enabling faster decision making.

Software to help marketing teams design sophisticated advertising campaigns and quickly publish those campaigns to leading social networks, resulting in a consistent customer experience through every online channel.

The next release of IBM's industry-leading social networking platform will further enable users to access and analyze big data from inside and outside the organization, including Facebook, Twitter, audio and video.

Already in beta, IBM is also announcing its plans to release the industry's first truly social email client incorporating file sharing, activity streams and a simplified user interface. This will be the first major release of Notes and Domino in five years.

"IBM is revolutionizing front-office processes with the application of cognitive computing and advanced analytics," said
Alistair Rennie, general manager, social business, IBM. "Social business has transitioned from being an emerging idea to a fundamental platform that clients everywhere are using to change the way they empower their employees and engage their customers."

New software and services enabling the 21st Century workforceFollowing its
$1.3B acquisition of
Kenexa in
December 2012, IBM today announced a new Web-based social networking environment that is expected to integrate IBM's
industry-leading enterprise social networking platform with Kenexa's recruiting, on-boarding, learning and performance management solutions.

The IBM Employee Experience Suite will help HR leaders attract, empower and motivate talent to address skill and resource gaps while enabling their workforce to deliver better results for their clients. For example, employees can use social networking, e-meeting and instant messaging capabilities to access applications and interactive rich media such as videos, resulting in improved collaboration and greater teaming across globally distributed teams.